Alan Garner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
-- Alan Garner

#Flower #Hunting #Owl
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
-- Alan Garner

#Rooms #Chairs
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
-- Alan Garner

#Children #Attitude #Book
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
-- Alan Garner

#Cities #Crowds #Biomass
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
-- Alan Garner

#Men #Self #Grandfather
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
-- Alan Garner

#Book
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
-- Alan Garner

#Osmosis #Space #Long
Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
-- Alan Garner

#Trying #Force #Ive Learned
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
-- Alan Garner

#Writing
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
-- Alan Garner

#Writing #Stories #Research
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
-- Alan Garner

#Wish #One Day #Monkeys
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
-- Alan Garner

#Monkeys #Language
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
-- Alan Garner

#Coward #Cop #Metaphor
It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
-- Alan Garner

#Indiana #Purses #Compliment
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
-- Alan Garner

#Stress #People #Care
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
-- Alan Garner

#Writing #Simple #World
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply canâ€™t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
-- Alan Garner

#Jobs #Stories #Levels
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
-- Alan Garner

#Block #Thinking #Waiting
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
-- Alan Garner

#School #Two #Feet

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